Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from New Zealand and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing This Heat to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Nirvana,
Brass Construction,
Bizarre Inc.,
Underground Resistance,
Sex Pistols,
Quando Quango,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scan 7,
Curtis Mayfield,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soulsonic Force,
Agitation Free,
Kas Product,
The Doors,
FM Einheit,
Donny Hathaway,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Gladiators,
Ronnie Foster,
Pole,
AZ,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crispy Ambulance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Glenn Branca,
Theoretical Girls,
Electric Prunes,
Groovy Waters,
The Wake,
Q and Not U,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Flipper,
Roy Ayers,
Sonic Youth,
Reagan Youth,
Harpers Bizarre,
Simply Red,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nick Fraelich,
Ornette Coleman,
Ohio Players,
Mo-Dettes,
Camberwell Now,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter & Gordon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Avey Tare,
Todd Terry,
Angry Samoans,
June Days,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roger Hodgson,
the Human League,
Skaos,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.